miscellanea
EGITTO – ACQUE AGITATE NEL DELTA (MARCH 2010)
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ELECTION DAY IN LEBANON (JULY 2009)
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INTRODUCTION TO THE ARAB WORLD AND SOCIETY
I taught this course at the Master “Mediterranean Cultural Studies” (University of Tarragona – Spain). Beside offering the students a general overview-introduction to the Arab world, I focused the course on the idea of diversity and on the supposed “struggle for modernity”. Such aspect has been helpful in order to push students toward critical thinking. The last part of the course focused on contemporary Arab world, the internal malheure and forms of dissension. (OCTOBER 2008)
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Entre la guerra i el consens: el paper de la societat civil en l’actual conflicte libanès. In Ambits de Politica i Societat, n° 39 (SUMMER 2008)
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RECLAIMING THE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SPHERE: COMMUNAL INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES AND THE LEBANESE SYSTEM
Ph.D. thesis in Mediterranean Cultural Studies (MAY 2008)
Find here an abstract and the full thesis (in English)
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Espai public i societat civil dintre d’un estat confessional. Els drusos del Liban i les organitzacions de base comunitaria. In El Contemporani. Arts, Història, Societat, n° 35-36 (2007)
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MINORITIES, COMMUNITIES AND SECT WITHIN THE ARAB WORLD
This seminar aimed to offer an overview over the presence of so-called minorities within the Arab world. Main aim of the seminar was to discuss the same concept of minority in its application to the Arab world and society. (APRIL 2007)
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THE SHEBAA FARMS, HEZBOLLAH AND THE NEW LEBANESE STATE: A GAME OF IDENTITIES INSIDE A TERRITORIAL CONFLICT
Shebaa Farms, a meeting point among Lebanon, Syria and Israel, is a field where the different protagonists collide, each trying to claim possession of the territory. Apart from its strategic importance and its rich spring waters, a clash among identities comes into play, a conflict that develops on different levels: local, national, regional and international. Due to the death of the former Prime Minister Hariri, the “Velvet Revolution”, and the Syrian withdrawal from the Lebanese state, new backdrops will open. All of these imply, Hezbollah’s “Resistance”, who are always being asked for complete disarmament by the international community, and the role that it will play in the new Lebanese state after the elections this June. Presented next, is an analysis on possible implications in the dispute over the territory, and their relations with the Lebanese state and its national identity.(2005)
Download the article here (in Italian)
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AMAZIGH EN MARRUECOS: ENTRE EL ASOCIACIONISMO Y LAS REIVINDICACIONES
At present, Morocco is living in the shadows of a strong contrast between the Arab component and the indigenous Berber population. Through a series of interviews in situ, it has been possible to outline how the Berber civil society is organized and is currently promoting its own culture in order to protect it from oblivion. A civil society that, although involved in a national protest movement, is internally confronted, contradicting itself, with huge question marks and strong feelings. (2003/2004)
Download the article here (in Spanish)
Download here a longer report on the condition of the Amazigh people in Morocco (in Italian)
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